The cost of removing statues. Should the tearful left pay for this?

Why not just change the plaque to say "an army of poor white men was created by aristocrats to preserve racism in America"

Or these losers of the civil war had terrible ideas...

Let's not pretend the intent of the majority of these statues erected during reconstruction and the civil rights Era were for the sake of artistic
expression.

LOL, you can make whatever signs you like, once you move the statues to a nice place. And if you like, you can even make up your own version of
history, like saying the majority of southerners had plantations and slaves, were wildly wealthy, and had a slight chubby for oppressing black folks,
unlike in the north, where black folks were elevated to positions of high authority and grandeur.

Personally I think keeping them in plain site and telling the truth in the description is more powerful but you can follow whatever identity politics
you feel necessary, don't forget your sign...

I get your point. All the statues down here have placards talking all about how awesome slavery was, how the "darkies" aren't really "people" and how
we all owned plantations. Bill Engvall has your sign.

I think your hubris is overtaking you speech. Remember, you, the left, have a moral obligation to help the poor grass eaters on the right be able to
remember things, so statues in museums might be our last hope for keeping our history "memorable". I mean, nobody on the right has "degrees" whatever
those are, and none of us are smart enough to just "remember" stuff, that's for, you know, sooper smart folks, like you and your side.

Don't skip out now, you opened the can, keep track of your worms.

I'm a registered Republican

Thanks for calling me sooper smart. I predicted Blade Runner: 2049 to a T and I got a 14 on my SAT's.

I'm not trying to brag... but I'm pretty smart. I once counted to eleven

Why not just change the plaque to say "an army of poor white men was created by aristocrats to preserve racism in America"

Or these losers of the civil war had terrible ideas...

Let's not pretend the intent of the majority of these statues erected during reconstruction and the civil rights Era were for the sake of artistic
expression.

LOL, you can make whatever signs you like, once you move the statues to a nice place. And if you like, you can even make up your own version of
history, like saying the majority of southerners had plantations and slaves, were wildly wealthy, and had a slight chubby for oppressing black folks,
unlike in the north, where black folks were elevated to positions of high authority and grandeur.

Personally I think keeping them in plain site and telling the truth in the description is more powerful but you can follow whatever identity politics
you feel necessary, don't forget your sign...

I get your point. All the statues down here have placards talking all about how awesome slavery was, how the "darkies" aren't really "people" and how
we all owned plantations. Bill Engvall has your sign.

No,
I think a society doesn't consider the feelings of 50 percent of it population like in Columbia, SC or New Orleans has a problem. Maybe y'all should
have had a conversation 100 years ago.

But having lived in Texas, Oaklahoma, and North and South Carolina I hold by my many statement. I never said all.

Ate you saying the right doesn't care that the racists statues were put up in defiance of black freedom?

The conservatives in the north don't really care about the statues, except when the liberals college kids defile them without the proper method and
message.

those of us on the "right" down here, just aren't smart enough to see through the veil of racism pulled over the statues, we are still bobbling around
thinking they have something to do with the history of the land here, and some of the battles that were had on the land here. We really need some
liberal asswipes to come set us straight.

If you knew anything about history you would know the history that follows the statues in many cases, including why they were put up and what the
people who put then up said.

Yea, I guess this one says the same thing, just in a different way.

"THE CONFEDERATE STATUE The unarmed Confederate soldier standing in the intersection of Washington and Prince Streets marks the location where
units from Alexandria left to join the Confederate Army on May 24, 1861. The soldier is facing the battlefields to the South where his comrades fell
during the War Between the States. The names of those Alexandrians who died in service for the Confederacy are inscribed on the base of the statue.
The title of the sculpture is “Appomattox” by M. Casper Buberl.

Ate you saying the right doesn't care that the racists statues were put up in defiance of black freedom?

The conservatives in the north don't really care about the statues, except when the liberals college kids defile them without the proper method and
message.

those of us on the "right" down here, just aren't smart enough to see through the veil of racism pulled over the statues, we are still bobbling around
thinking they have something to do with the history of the land here, and some of the battles that were had on the land here. We really need some
liberal asswipes to come set us straight.

If you knew anything about history you would know the history that follows the statues in many cases, including why they were put up and what the
people who put then up said.

Yea, I guess this one says the same thing, just in a different way.

"THE CONFEDERATE STATUE The unarmed Confederate soldier standing in the intersection of Washington and Prince Streets marks the location where
units from Alexandria left to join the Confederate Army on May 24, 1861. The soldier is facing the battlefields to the South where his comrades fell
during the War Between the States. The names of those Alexandrians who died in service for the Confederacy are inscribed on the base of the statue.
The title of the sculpture is “Appomattox” by M. Casper Buberl.

The question is how many could we compare in a match of compare the history.

Particularly around judicial and city hall locations as well as universities.

Wonder why so many put up in rebellion with clear statements from the politicians of the time?

I will say however it doesn't need to be in public. It should be on a battleground yes, if the location is not a battleground but has become the main
entrance to a university it's worth a conversation.

If you want to hysterically defend the memorial of soldiers fighting on the wrong side of history without admitting there are conversations that need
to take place about the reality of the situation today and at the time then I don't think your a productive social advisor.

Ate you saying the right doesn't care that the racists statues were put up in defiance of black freedom?

The conservatives in the north don't really care about the statues, except when the liberals college kids defile them without the proper method and
message.

those of us on the "right" down here, just aren't smart enough to see through the veil of racism pulled over the statues, we are still bobbling around
thinking they have something to do with the history of the land here, and some of the battles that were had on the land here. We really need some
liberal asswipes to come set us straight.

If you knew anything about history you would know the history that follows the statues in many cases, including why they were put up and what the
people who put then up said.

Yea, I guess this one says the same thing, just in a different way.

"THE CONFEDERATE STATUE The unarmed Confederate soldier standing in the intersection of Washington and Prince Streets marks the location where
units from Alexandria left to join the Confederate Army on May 24, 1861. The soldier is facing the battlefields to the South where his comrades fell
during the War Between the States. The names of those Alexandrians who died in service for the Confederacy are inscribed on the base of the statue.
The title of the sculpture is “Appomattox” by M. Casper Buberl.

I think your hubris is overtaking you speech. Remember, you, the left, have a moral obligation to help the poor grass eaters on the right be able to
remember things, so statues in museums might be our last hope for keeping our history "memorable". I mean, nobody on the right has "degrees" whatever
those are, and none of us are smart enough to just "remember" stuff, that's for, you know, sooper smart folks, like you and your side.

Don't skip out now, you opened the can, keep track of your worms.

I'm a registered Republican

Thanks for calling me sooper smart. I predicted Blade Runner: 2049 to a T and I got a 14 on my SAT's.

I'm not trying to brag... but I'm pretty smart. I once counted to eleven

Sorry, if you are a republican (bwahahaha) then you are just as dumb as the rest of us. You just choose to hang around the smart kids table, hoping
nobody asks you anything difficult. But from your post history, you aren't a very good one, so there is hope.

Yeah I mean when the south finally was able to rebuild itself after getting it's ass handed to it by the maniac Sherman they started putting up
monuments and making speeches about white supremacy. The libs at the time and massive eugenics movement that came from preserved racism.

I think your hubris is overtaking you speech. Remember, you, the left, have a moral obligation to help the poor grass eaters on the right be able to
remember things, so statues in museums might be our last hope for keeping our history "memorable". I mean, nobody on the right has "degrees" whatever
those are, and none of us are smart enough to just "remember" stuff, that's for, you know, sooper smart folks, like you and your side.

Don't skip out now, you opened the can, keep track of your worms.

I'm a registered Republican

Thanks for calling me sooper smart. I predicted Blade Runner: 2049 to a T and I got a 14 on my SAT's.

I'm not trying to brag... but I'm pretty smart. I once counted to eleven

Sorry, if you are a republican (bwahahaha) then you are just as dumb as the rest of us. You just choose to hang around the smart kids table, hoping
nobody asks you anything difficult. But from your post history, you aren't a very good one, so there is hope.

I'm a human being. I'm a registered Republican because voted for Ron Paul.

Just wanted to point out your attempt at partisan discrediting, but hey, you seem like you're sooper smarter than us dummy head peons.

I'm for equal representation, I'm for moving, not destroying those monuments. They were put up and kept up to intimidate Black people. Black people
used our democratic system to have them moved. Are you opposed to voting in municipal matters?

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